Museum to celebrate Premchand’s literature

A state-of-the-art museum is all set to come up at Lamahi, the native place of veteran Hindi litterateur Munshi Premchand. This museum will showcase the famous characters of his  literature works.Lamahi is a village in  Varanasi district known as the native of Premchand. The museum will include socio-economic conditions at the time of Premchand contrasting to the current scenario. The union ministry of Tourism and Culture has given a nod to the proposal for thes museum and library.  This step was taken after the authorities received a number of letters with requests to develop Lamahi as a cultural village. The ministry has also asked the Uttar Pradesh tourism department to submit a detailed project report in this regard. Union tourism and culture minister Dr Mahesh Sharma said, “A state-of- the-art museum and a library will be constructed at Lamahi. The matter has been discussed in detail at a meeting with UP tourism minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi. She has been asked to submit a DPR.” There will be statues of popular Premchand’s characters like Gobar, Dhania, Hori, Dattadin, Rai Sahab, Bhola, Miss Malati, Govindi, Anandi, Matadin, Bhola, Jhuri and his two bullocks Heera and Moti with a brief description about each one. The novel or the story in which the characters feature will also be mentioned. The statues will illustrate scenes from the period in which Premchand wrote the classics. The ministry aims at developing Lamahi as a cultural and heritage village. Later, it will focus on the native places of other noted laureates in the country. The government also plan to conserve all works by Premchand in the library.